Management Decision: Volume 11 Issue 5

ORGANISATION AND CONTROL OF COMPUTER RESOURCES: In a Large Multi Division Corporation

Peter J. Hughes

The Basic Problem The basic problem in any multi division organisation which employs computing resources (defined for this purpose not only as hardware but also the experienced…

EXECUTIVE DIAGNOSIS THROUGH COMPONENT ANALYSIS

Stuart St.P. Slatter

Component analysis is a simple technique which can be readily used by all those in general management to determine which are the most profit sensitive variables over which they…

MEASURING THE EFFECTIVENESS OF AN ORGANISATION'S MANAGEMENT CONTROL SYSTEMS: The Expectations Approach

John Machin

It is hard to manage effectively in any organisation since one of the major hurdles is knowing what constitutes effectiveness anyway. It is just as hard to assess the…

MERGING PUBLIC SERVICES

Jimmy Algie

Forthcoming Reorganisations Inter‐Authority working parties develop programmes for forthcoming Local Government reorganisation. Elaborate Health Service reorganisation plans are…

FINANCIAL AND LEGAL NOTES

Desmond Goch

Company Law Reform The Government's long awaited White Paper on Company Law Reform has taken 'disclosure' as its principal theme and many of the areas of current practice which…

PROJECT APPRAISAL BY COST MODEL

P.A. Thompson, J.D. Whitman

The risk of delay in commissioning is rarely considered during feasibility studies for a capital project, and the results of such studies are rarely updated during the…

OPPORTUNITY COSTS IN MANAGEMENT RESEARCH

Kenneth P. Gee

The opportunity cost of using a resource to produce A is the maximum value foregone by not using it to produce B, C and so on. If a resource is entirely specific to one task and…

THE CONCEPT OF CASH FLOW: Techniques for Speeding up the Flow of Cash

Luc A. Soenen

There are several definitions of the concept of “cash flow” in the current financial literature. The article begins by reviewing the most recent definitions of cash flow. An arrow…

ORGANISING TO ORGANISE

Patrick A. Sills

Organisation structures have been planned and changed—or not planned and not changed—for as long as human beings have combined their efforts towards common goals. Organising…